Religion & Law

Tim Jost (who is a devout Mennonite) and I overlapped at Ohio State during the 1981-82 academic year.  dotCommonweal is emphasizing Tim's response to the USCCB:

Jost answers the USCCB?s prolife office

Until today, this memo by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost of Washington and Lee law school, was the best analysis of the Senate bill?s abortion language I had seen. Now the best analysis I?ve seen is his response to the USCCB?s critique of that memo. (Strangely, the USCCB?s critique was posted not on their own Web site but on that of the National Right to Life Committee.) Jost?s response is a model of courtesy, scruple, and analytical sobriety. He looks at every feverish speculation advanced by prolife opponents of the Senate bill and heads it off at the pass. He offers the economic and historical context without which it is impossible to understand what?s really at stake. He offers good prolife reasons to support the Senate bill (now the only bill worth talking about). And all the while he manages, quite remarkably, not to lose his temper with those who have made and repeated dubious claims even after they?ve been corrected.

[Read the rest, here.]